With the awesome news that Kamala Harris will be America’s vice president, we are energized that things will get cooking – placed as a top priority – on the international trade front for women because trade improves the lives of women. One fact for sure: America will have through Kamala its first female vice president,
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Everyone knows the classic adage, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”
But wegg® knows, “Give a woman a fish, and you feed her for a day.
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According to the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, In 2016, 97% of all exporters in the U.S. were small and medium-sized companies. The other statistic from this study that can’t be ignored is that only 12% of businesses that export are owned by women.
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According to Mari Kiviniemi, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Deputy Secretary-General, investment in women boosts economic development, competitiveness, job creation and GDP — and that’s why we launched WEGG. Read the latest OECD Yearbook 2015 by OECD and catch Mari’s article on gender equality.
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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program released Women’s Lives and Challenges: Equality and Empowerment since 2000 (PDF, 18171K), a report that assesses gains in women’s status and gender equality worldwide.
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